Artist.......: VA
Album........: Dirty Edits Vol.2
Label........: Dirty
Genre........: Electronic
Catnr........: DL CD 002
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Dec-20-2008
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. People - Glastonbury (Dirty Reissue) 02:30
02. Elvis Presley - Crawfish (Pilooski Edit) 05:46
03. J.J. Cale - Ride Me High (Joakim Edit) 05:55
04. Jackson Jones - I Feel Good, Put Your Pants 08:07
on (Pilooski Edit)
05. Danny Gold - Throwdown (Pilooski Edit) 05:38
06. Yellow Power - Hai Samurai (Pilooski Edit) 09:08
07. The the - Giant (Pilooski Edit) 07:52
08. Holger Hiller - Das Feuer (Pilooski Edit) 05:49
09. Q.Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses (Krikor Edit) 05:59
10. Octet - Euros Vs. Dollars (Pilooski Edit) 07:10
11. Del Shannon - Gemini (Pilooski Edit) 06:05
Runtime 69:59 min
Size 98,6 MB
Release Notes:
This second edits comp from Paris' dirty crew
affirms that for Pilooski and friends, everything
old is still new again. Unlike many re-editors,
though, the dirty team doesn't limit itself to re-
cutting gems from the fertile underground of dusty
disco, and the breadth of material on Dirty Edits 2
shows just how wide they're capable of casting
their net. Should this comp make its way into your
hands, consider yourself well-armed: The next time
you play host, you won't have to show off with a
cultivated playlist. Simply let this thing roll
from start to finish, as it represents a range of
people-pleasers that don't resort to the lowest
common denominatorùnever a mean feat.
While Pilooski and the dirty crew are adept at
wielding the edit knife, the opening track is solid
evidence that they also know when to leave well
enough alone. Not a paw has been laid on the
haunting, far-forgotten folk-funk tune
"Glastonbury." It opens with an incantatory druid
melody that suddenly sprouts a deeply funky drum
backing, a brazen genre-bend that sounds like James
Brown doing "The Wicker Man." If the track didn't
have the word "reissue" stamped on it, you'd be
forgiven for thinking it a mash-up.
Its fascinating hybrid form is a precursor to the
past-present re-edits time warp that gets fully
inaugurated once a loud 808 thump suddenly
materializes beneath the deep bayou groove of Elvis
Presley's "Crawfish." Lyrics-wise, the image of
procuring such a creature from its muddy shelter
and then preparing it for dinner doesn't seem
terribly different from the process of digging up a
bunch of lost sonic delights and dicing them up for
today's palettes. Here, the recipe seems to involve
sprinkles of lightly descending phaseshift and
shining loops of harp glissando.
Later, Pilooski cohort Joakim cuts J.J. Cale's
"Ride My High" into enough of a dreamy up-tempo
breezer that you can see how psych-rockers like
Spiritualized once got so blissed out on the
bluesùhaving pulled off a similar transformation of
J.J.'s "They Call Me the Breeze" way back on Lazer
Guided Melodies, while the compilation's second
half delves into the '80s, with a steady medley of
electro-infused tunes, the kind of slower-speed
oddities that seem to indicate thatùin dance
musicùit's kind of hard to be weird and fast at the
same time. One of Pilooski's greatest talents is
his remarkable ability to let a track build steam.
His edits often chug, churn and throb forward like
an approaching freight train. Yellow Power's "Hai
Samurai" is a particularly striking example of
this, a dense '80s electro-disco tune that slowly
and steadily grows in pulsing intensity.
Pilooski's take on The The's "Giant," however, does
more or less the opposite, taking a stripped-down
approach to a synth-pop groove that's allowed to
ride out unperturbed before climaxing in a
syncopated drum burst. And then, in a bit of fresh
air after a long spell of deep and wonky weirdness,
the final track brings us back to a final fresh-
faced soul-stomp, an edit of Del Shannon's
"Gemini." Along with "Crawfish" it's one of the
standouts here, marrying a lovely minor-key ditty
to a powerful, Gary-Glitter-style stadium shuffle,
a joyous curtain-closer.